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"This volume has much to recommend it -- providing fascinating and
stimulating insights into many arenas of material culture, many of which still
remain only superficially explored in the archaeological literature." --
Archaeological Review

"... a vivid introduction to the
topic.... A glimpse into the unique and changing identities in an ever-changing
world." -- Come-All-Ye

Fourteen interdisciplinary essays open
new perspectives for understanding African societies and cultures through the
contextualized study of objects, treating everything from the production of material
objects to the meaning of sticks, masquerades, household tools, clothing, and the
television set in the contemporary repertoire of African material culture.

Spurred by major changes in the world economy and in local ecology, the contemporary migration of Africans, both within the continent and to various destinations in Europe and North America, has seriously affected thousands of lives and livelihoods. The contributors to this volume, reflecting a variety of disciplinary perspectives, examine the causes and consequences of this new migration. The essays cover topics such as rural-urban migration into African cities, transnational migration, and the experience of immigrants abroad, as well as the issues surrounding migrant identity and how Africans re-create community and strive to maintain ethnic, gender, national, and religious ties to their former homes.

In this new history of music in Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero deftly uses African sources to interrogate the copious colonial archive, reading it as a confessional voice along and against the grain to write a complex history of music, colonialism, and African self-liberation. Chikowero's book begins in the 1890s with missionary crusades against African performative cultures and African students being inducted into mission bands, which contextualize the music of segregated urban and mining company dance halls in the 1930s, and he builds genealogies of the Chimurenga music later popularized by guerrilla artists like Dorothy Masuku, Zexie Manatsa, Thomas Mapfumo, and others in the 1970s. Chikowero shows how Africans deployed their music and indigenous knowledge systems to fight for their freedom from British colonial domination and to assert their cultural sovereignty.

"Hountondji... writes not as an 'African' philosopher but as a
philosopher on Africa.... Hountondji's deep understanding of any civilization as
necessarily pluralistic, and often even self-contradicting as it evolves, is simply
magisterial.... This is a precious gem of a book for anyone who wishes to reflect on
civilization and culture." -- Choice

In this incisive, original
exploration of the nature and future of African philosophy, Paulin J. Hountondji
attacks a myth popularized by ethnophilosophers such as Placide Tempels and Alexis
Kagame that there is an indigenous, collective African philosophy separate and
distinct from the Western philosophical tradition. Hountondji contends that
ideological manifestations of this view that stress the uniqueness of the African
experience are protonationalist reactions against colonialism conducted,
paradoxically, in the terms of colonialist discourse. Hountondji argues that a
genuine African philosophy must assimilate and transcend the theoretical heritage of
Western philosophy and must reflect a rigorous process of independent scientific
inquiry. This edition is updated with a new preface in which Hountondji responds to
his critics and clarifies misunderstandings about the book's conceptual
framework.

"This book charts new directions in thinking about the construction
of new world identities.... The way in which [Bennett] integrates race, gender, and
the tension between canon and secular law into his analysis will inspire
re-examination of earlier studies of marriage in Latin America and the
Caribbean." -- Judith A. Byfield

Colonial Mexico was home to
the largest population of free and slave Africans in the New World. Africans in
Colonial Mexico explores how they learned to make their way in a culture of Spanish
and Roman Catholic absolutism by using the legal institutions of church and state to
create a semblance of cultural autonomy. From secular and ecclesiastical court
records, Bennett reconstructs the lives of slave and free blacks, their regulation
by the government and by the Church, the impact of the Inquisition, their legal
status in marriage, and their rights and obligations as Christian subjects. His
findings demonstrate the malleable nature of African identities in the Atlantic
world, as well as the ability of Africans to deploy their own psychological
resources to survive displacement and oppression.

The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly
living alone are startling new phenomena in India. These trends are related to
extensive overseas migration and the transnational dispersal of families. In this
moving and insightful account, Sarah Lamb shows that older persons are innovative
agents in the processes of social-cultural change. Lamb's study probes debates and
cultural assumptions in both India and the United States regarding how best to age;
the proper social-moral relationship among individuals, genders, families, the
market, and the state; and ways of finding meaning in the human life
course.

How can a fictional text adequately or meaningfully represent the events
of the Holocaust? Drawing on philosopher Stanley Cavell's ideas about
"acknowledgment" as a respectful attentiveness to the world, Emily Miller
Budick develops a penetrating philosophical analysis of major works by
internationally prominent Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld. Through sensitive
discussions of the novels Badenheim 1939, The Iron Tracks, The Age of Wonders, and
Tzili, and the autobiographical work The Story of My Life, Budick reveals the
compelling art with which Appelfeld renders the sights, sensations, and experiences
of European Jewish life preceding, during, and after the Second World War. She
argues that it is through acknowledging the incompleteness of our knowledge and
understanding of the catastrophe that Appelfeld's fiction produces not only its
stunning aesthetic power but its affirmation and faith in both the human and the
divine. This beautifully written book provides a moving introduction to the work of
an important and powerful writer and an enlightening meditation on how fictional
texts deepen our understanding of historical events.

Ideas and concepts are arguably the most important legacy of the United
Nations. Ahead of the Curve? analyzes the evolution of key ideas and concepts about
international economic and social development born or nurtured, refined or applied
under UN auspices since 1945. The authors evaluate the policy ideas coming from UN
organizations and scholars in relation to such critical issues as decolonization,
sustainable development, structural adjustment, basic needs, human rights, women,
world employment, the transition of the Eastern bloc, the role of nongovernmental
organizations, and global governance.

The authors find that, in
many instances, UN ideas about how to tackle problems of global import were sound
and far-sighted, although they often fell on the deaf ears of powerful member states
until it was apparent that a different approach was needed. The authors also
identify important areas where the UN has not stood constructively at the
fore.

In the 20th century, Ahmedabad was India's "shock city." It was the place
where many of the nation's most important developments occurred first and with the
greatest intensity -- from Gandhi's political and labor organizing, through the
growth of textile, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries, to globalization and the
sectarian violence that marked the turn of the new century. Events that happened
there resonated throughout the country, for better and for worse. Howard Spodek
describes the movements that swept the city, telling their story through the careers
of the men and women who led them.

William J. Helmer. With Georgette Winkeler's one-of-a-kind record of her life with the Chicago mob

When her husband was murdered on the orders of Chicago mobster Frank Nitti, Georgette Winkeler -- wife of one of Al Capone's "American Boys" -- set out to expose the Chicago Syndicate. After an attempt to publish her story was squelched by the mob, she offered it to the FBI in the mistaken belief that they had the authority to strike at the racketeers who had killed her husband Gus. Discovered 60 years later in FBI files, the manuscript describes the couple's life on the run, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Gus was one of the shooters), and other headline crimes of that period. Prepared for publication by mob expert William J. Helmer, Al Capone and His American Boys is a compelling contemporary account of the heyday of Chicago crime by a woman who found herself married to the mob.

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